Think the lineup actually makes a fair amount of sense once Trent is ruled out.
Virg was always coming back in and Robbo has played a LOT of football for both us and Scotland over recent weeks, add to that Tsimikas's early season performances and he probably both deserves another chance and doesn't weaken us too much I don't think.
Matip, like Virg (and Gomez) needs to have his minutes managed and this would have been his 3rd 90 in a week. Totally sensible to take him out and give Konate his debut alongside the leader, communicator and all round absolute boss that Virg is.
At rightback there's an argument I suppose for Gomez because of his pace up against Zaha, but he's only just done his first 90 of the season and is probably gonna be asked to go again midweek vs Norwich. Milner brings concerns in terms of his pace no doubt, but his passing/crossing ability as well as his experience and quality in creating triangles with our other attacking players and midfielders is probably the best we've got outside of Trent.
Midfield and Attack look totally fine to me, those lads will get their rest, if needed, vs Norwich. Wouldn't stun me if we saw Minamino get 30 in this if we're in such a position. He's likely to start vs Norwich and Klopp has bigged up his training performances a couple of times. Did well against Palace last season too.
Think we'll win this well. 2/3 nil to the reds.
